Warriors star Stephen Curry continues to make “good progress” in his recovery from a left foot sprain and bone bruise, the team announced today in a press release.
According to the Warriors’ announcement, Curry progressed last week to various individual on-court activities, including shooting and running, and may take part in full team practices this week. His status for Game 1 of Golden State’s first round series vs. Denver this weekend remains up in the air, according to the club.
Curry, who suffered the injury on March 16 vs. Boston, missed the regular season and has long been targeting the start of the playoffs for his return. One source tell Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link) that Curry’s availability for Game 1 on Saturday remains a “close call.”
Speaking today to reporters, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr referred to Curry as “literally day to day” (Twitter link via Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated). Kerr said it’s “essential” that Curry scrimmages at least once before returning to action, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter link). The team will scrimmage on Thursday.
If Curry remains sidelined for the start of the Denver series, the Warriors will continue to lean more heavily on Draymond Green and Jordan Poole for play-making, with Poole, Klay Thompson, and Andrew Wiggins shouldering more of the scoring load.
Prob sits game 1 could be back for game 2
You’re joking right?
You know what, this is so ridiculous it’s worth a second reply. Are you kidding me, Curry sitting out game 1 of a playoff game? You my friend have no clue.
Now go sit on the couch and watch the Nets destroy the Cavs by probably 12 to 15 points. Have a nice day. No charge by the way.
What a thin-skinned response. Red has his or her opinion, so you do. You don’t have a monopoly on that.
Moreover, bone bruises are no joke even if we’re talking about the ankle here. And the Warriors may want to play things safe. I could definitely see him sitting out a game if they are adamant about getting him to 100%.
The playoffs are a marathon, not a sprint. Curry undoubtedly realizes this.
I’m going to give a hard challenge to anyone that says Curry probably sits out game one and could maybe be back for game 2 but they’re not sure. So Curry plays game 3? Hard challenge. Not sure why that’s thin-skinned.
Because you aren’t necessarily right? If you are, by all means prove it to all of us right now. Prove to us Curry is guaranteed not to miss a single game. I can’t believe I’m even having this conversation with someone right now lol.
It’s not like I don’t want Curry to play; I have no vested interest in this as a Spurs fan. I just think it’s plausible he sits one game to get right.
I GUARANTEE STEPH CURRY PLAYS GAME ONE.
You heard it here first, folks!
You may be right, but you’re thoroughly mistaken if you think I won’t come back here and laugh at you if you’re not.
Why wait, laugh now.
It’s fun going out on a limb especially when it’s so obvious.
But I’m wrong all the time you guys know that. Live life, get a little blood in your sword, make some crazy predictions.
When you’re right you’re a genius when you’re wrong you get laughed at. No problem, part of the territory. Makes this all fun.
I’ve been through too many life and death situations to sweat over basketball commentary. This is fun and if you can’t laugh at yourself when you’re wrong why you even do it?
But this isn’t even a question. Curry’s playing game one 100% guaranteed, all the chips on the table. It’s not too late to join the bandwagon on this.
Yes get the teammates switched on instead of on a watching habit.
Doncic could miss too tho it would be a better strategy to let him go nuts game 1.
What’s Doncic got to do with anything?
Nothing much, apart of being light years better than Curry, that’s for sure!
Okay Skip. We found your burner account.
El Don Always Wrong.., not so fast. Light years better at what? Winning? Not yet, give him some time but he’s not there yet. Get three rings and then talk to me.
Shooting? Not quite. Ask anyone.
Defense? They’re both probably even as negative Defenders.
Passing, assists, Vision, creating for his teammates? Doncic is pretty good at that but I would say Curry is pretty good at that as well, though his role is more of a scorer than a facilitator. But light years better as a facilitator than Curry.., not quite.
I’ve never thought about muting anybody on this or the baseball site but I’m real close to muting El Don always wrong.
You forgot to mention 2 MVPs. Doncic first needs to get out of the first round. Doncic is a stat padder.
EL Don is a troll. Don’t take him seriously.
Denver, Dallas… [oops whichever emoji]
Free throw shooting
Poole 92.5%
Curry 92.3%
Klay 90.2%
volume shooting
How often have this happened in one team?
No team in NBA history has a better free-throw shooting percentage in a given season than the 2019-20 Phoenix Suns. The Phoenix Suns shot 1,740 free throws this season. The made 1,451 of them. This comes out to an uncanny 83.39 percent, good enough to make them the best free-throw shooting team in NBA history.
Don’t see them beating Denver without Curry. Warriors just keep getting injuries. Was looking forward to a full healthy GS team in playoffs this yr.
They’ll be fine don’t you worry